NFS, Linux & OSX

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>In a 0.7K blaze of typing glory, ejbr at comcast.net wrote:
>> A while ago, I posted about getting a Linux client to access an NFS server 
>> on OSX.  Using trial and much error, I'm getting there, I think.  Anyway, 
>> some of the things  I've tried  have gotten rid of one or another error 
>> message.  But, still can't read the mounted directory.  
>> "cat /proc/mounts" yields:
>> 
>> 192.168.1.102:/Volumes/Alien /mnt/alien nfs
>>        rw,nosuid,nodev,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,hard,intr,udp,lock,addr=192.168.1.102
>>         0 0  
>> 
>> Anything wrong with that?  Wrong parameters, missing?
>
>Looks right to me. Are both client and server using NFS v3?

I have found that setting the option, tcp, has cured some problems where we
have a Linux server with multiple IP aliases on the NIC.  It seems that UDP
replies would come from IP addresses other than the one on eth0 so mounts
always failed.  I've never been able to figure out why the Linux box would
reply on aliases other than the primary one for the NIC (the Linux is
Caldera eDesktop 2.4).

Bill
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